Question- Can you play games such as Half-Life and Quake III on Linux? I'm thinking about buying a computer and I'm just maybe- just MAYBE- thinking about looking into Linux (RedHat 9). Would it require Windows emulators? If so, would it slow down the gameplay at all? Thanks.
Ooh, also. What are the system requirements for RedHat 9? I tried searching for it, but I found a bunch of penguins going 'Meep'.
-Chris
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 Jul 16 2003, 1:09 pm
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Question- Can you play games such as Half-Life and Quake III on Linux? as far as I know, using WineX by Transgaming (www.transgaming.com i think) will allow you to run many, many native Windows games on your Linux box at full speed. Check out the websites list of games that have been successfully run under Linux. a nice thing to know is that more and more games are being written to Linux at the same time they are developed for Windows and Mac. So there is great hope in the Linux gaming community. For less fancier games, you can also look at http://icculus.org/ (run by some ofthe guys who use to work at Loki Games), http://www.linuxgames.com/, http://www.linuxgaming.net/, http://www.linuxgamingnews.com/, and an interesting article about the future of Linux Gaming at http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32660.htm Ooh, also. What are the system requirements for RedHat 9? I tried searching for it, but I found a bunch of penguins going 'Meep'. try: http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/hcl/ for a hardware compatibilty list. In my personal case, I run a AMD Athlon XP 1.3Ghz machine with 768MB RAM, and onboard SiS graphics card (sharing 64MB of system RAM). Version 1.05 of Max Payne works perfectly (fast on the low end graphics settings), the Mandrake Edition of the Sims runs well, and Diablo 2 works - all on my RedHat 9 box. Quake2runs *very* nicely (there is a port for Linux), and I'm old fashioned so I stick to the older ego-shooters. (Nothing puts a smile on my face more often than wiping out a room full of bad guys with a well-placed BFG blast! or following someone for a few hundred meters just to get the right position for a well placed RailGun shot!) :) | |
I don't know if they've been ported to Linux yet, but they would slow down on an emulator, how much depends on your processor.
If your computer can run Windows95+ it can run ANY form of Linux, seeing as how Linux is less demanding than Windows.